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Generation, opportunity, responsibility: watchwords for elders for the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

If we have assistance robots and algorithms take over routine care in nursing homes, will that reduce our need of immigrants to do this work? Will that in turn make our country less connected and tolerant of others?

:- Doug.

Depend on your fellow human. Trust.

:- Doug.

Do the tough thing—rather than aim to change the world, aim to change people.

:- Doug.

There is always some value we can think to add that will improve lives and perhaps pay us. Think apps for phones.

:- Doug.

How could you use strategic questioning in writing and telling your stories?

:- Doug.

Go to the roots of your questions. There are always more roots than one. What’s the matter? Whom does it serve?

:- Doug.

What are you doing to prepare the next two generations to have a long view?

:- Doug.

How would you today take care for the good of the grandchildren—of 300 years from now?

:- Doug.

Right from wrong. Good from better. True worth. Meaning. For a good long while humans can be valuable to the world in these respects. Nor are these static: life moves on. We might lose our value or develop another. We might for the good of our universe go extinct. What’s so different?

:- Doug.

Why do people not concern themselves about future people?

:- Doug.

What is the pain of thinking ourselves into futures?

:- Doug.

In strategic questioning, Fran Peavey is in a realm of conflict; in futures work, we are all in a realm of don’t know.

:- Doug.

If strategic questions were the way to loosely guide, what form of question? Will it be overt questions or subtle?

:- Doug.

What’s your project? To keep on living it seems you gotta have a project.

:- Doug.

What is story? What forms does it take?

:- Doug.

Saw a video last night by E. O. Wilson about humanity’s “unusual genetic mutation, or “knockout gene,” that gave rise to eusociality, or the social condition that allows non-reproductive members of a species to support its reproductive members.” https://bigthink.com/videos/edward-o-wilson-on-eusociality It may be that our newly added generation is in fact reproductive in a new way, through creativity, story, and reaching forward.

:- Doug.

Speak truth to
non power
as if such exists

:- Doug.

Divinity turns
us round all ways
waterfalls, rapids, geysers!

:- Doug.

God loves diversity, creativity, novelty
Swirling about us all directions
dancing, sparkling, making new paths

:- Doug.

If God is there then what?

:- Doug.

Do the 2-step: Take the thought further, especially when you think it’s complete.

:- Doug.

Perhaps what we fear most from artificial intelligence is it unintelligibility: its to us inscrutability. And its insusceptibility to our attempts to influence it. (Might we try with bad data input—GIGO?)

:- Doug.